In less than two months, Apple's iPhone has been successfully
unlocked via software courtesy of iPhoneSimfree.com. The iPhone is currently
tied exclusively to AT&T for the foreseeable future, but the new software hack
allows users to hop to competing GSM networks such as T-Mobile.

According to Engadget,
the unlock process took no longer than a few minutes and caused no harm to the
iPhone used. Once unlocked, the iPhone was able to successfully make and receive calls using
the T-Mobile network. For the most part, all other iPhone features are also intact
including EDGE support and SMS send/receive. Visual voicemail isn't in the
cards as it is an AT&T network-specific feature; however, normal voicemail
is accessible using the software hack.

Engadget also
notes that the software hack is completely upgrade and restore resistant. They
verified this by performing a full system restore using the v1.0.2 update.

"Again: we can confirm with 100% certainty that
iPhoneSIMfree.com's software solution completely SIM unlocks the iPhone, is
restore-resistant, and should make the iPhone fully functional for users
outside of the US," said Engadget's
Ryan Block.

What does this have to do with OS security? People are trying to unlock their own devices using all tools available. It's not like someone can remotely access your phone / files. Comparing these two is just stupid.

Who knows if Apple actually made it easy to unlock the device? Their market just grow quite a lot since it's no longer AT&T only. Maybe they made it just difficult enough so that they won't get sued by AT&T?